Inspiration

[ceebeegee]

I'm doing the Hillside program now--I have all the bios, and I'm formatting it and adding graphics, etc. I was trying to think what sort of quotation(s) I'd like, not having access to my book of quotations which is at home (a little blank book in which I write down snippets of poetry, prose, arguments, etc.). And it struck me, the perfect poem for HIH:

Be to her, Persephone,
All the things I might not be;
Take her head upon your knee.
She that was so proud and wild,
Flippant, arrogant and free,
She that had no need of me,
Is a little lonely child
Lost in Hell,—Persephone,
Take her head upon your knee;
Say to her, "My dear, my dear
It is not so dreadful here."

Yes, it's a little precious (I'm only including the last couplet)--but I do love that poem. It's so tender.